Megs Jenkins
Рождение : 1917-04-21, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Смерть : 1998-10-05
История
An engineer's daughter, she had first planned on becoming a ballerina, using her original Christian name Muguette, but abandoned those plans by the age of 17 when she realized that her physique was more in keeping with her other first name, Megs. She trained in Liverpool at the School of Dancing and Dramatic Art and then joined the Liverpool Repertory Company in 1933 before moving to London to appear at the Player's Theatre four years later.
During the 1950's, Megs was busy acting on stage and had considerable critical success in two plays by Emlyn Williams, 'Light of Heart' (1940) and 'The Wind of Heaven' (1945). Against character, she also played the vicious, unstable Alma Winemiller in 'Summer and Smoke' (1951) by Tennessee Williams. In 1956, she was awarded the Clarence Derwent Award as Best Supporting Actress for her role as the stoic wife of a longshoreman harbouring incestuous feelings for his niece in 'A View from the Bridge' by Arthur Miller. The previous year, she had made her Broadway debut in Chekhov's 'A Day by the Sea' as a supportive governess to an alcoholic physician.
Mrs Braithwaite
Christmas is coming to Ten Acre Field and Worzel Gummidge (Jon Pertwee) is determined to enjoy it in style. He goes searching for Aunt Sally (Una Stubbs), hoping to invite her to the Scarecrow Ball, but before he can find her he runs into his old friend Saucy Nancy (Barbara Windsor), herself heading for a spell in panto. Then, before he gets much further, our multi-headed hero gets sidetracked again when he runs into angry Scots scarecrow Bogle McNeep (Billy Connolly) and his anti-Christmas brigade. Will Worzel ever get to enjoy the season with his beloved?
Eileen Gray
Hans Daedalus has defected from East Germany to the West. Is it possible that his opacity equations live on after his death?
Iris
Davey's milk delivery job offers him scant excitement. But when a few of the lonely housewives, including the alluring Rita, want him to deliver a little more than just pints of milk, Davey launches into a series of sexcapades that quickly get out of hand. Soon, he finds himself engaged to two women, dodging a local gangster who doesn't appreciate his "service" and fighting false rape charges in court.
Sra. Grose
An English governess is hired to take care of two adorable orphans, who turn out to be not exactly what they seem to be.
Nurse Higgins
Молодой психиатр доктор Мартин приезжает в психбольницу Дансмора, где надеется быть принятым на работу. Главный врач клиники, доктор Стар, был помещен к своим бывшим пациентам из-за умственного расстройства. Его ассистент, доктор Рутерфорд, чтобы проверить компетенцию прибывшего, показывает доктору Мартину четырех пациентов, среди которых находится и доктор Стар. Доктор должен выслушать их, идентифицировать и обнаружить безумного главного врача…
Clara Peggotty
A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.
Matron
A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.
Mrs. Bedwin
Оливер предпочитает жить на улицах, а не в приюте. Он попадает в добрую «семью» воришек и становится карманником.
Mrs. Christoforides
Джон Сойер, когда-то видный адвокат, погрузился в жизнь цинизма и пьянства с тех пор, как его жена покинула его. Когда парня его дочери обвиняют в убийстве, Сойер решает попытаться собраться и защитить его в суде.
Poor Willy’s mind has been warped by too many Westerns. He sees gunfighters on every corner, even though he’s in 1960s Swansea. Some think Billy’s simple. His Auntie just thinks he’s creative. But he’s on a dark path as his vivid imaginings grow wilder, and the world in his head comes roaring out into reality.An early piece from TV playwright Dennis Potter. (homemcr.otg)
Sister
Недавно переехавшая в новую квартиру Энн Лейк в первый раз собирает свою дочь Банни в новую школу. У нее нет мужа, а живет она вместе со своим братом, журналистом Стивеном. После обеда Энн отправляется в школу, чтобы забрать Банни. Но та не появляется. На расспросы обеспокоенной Энн выясняется, что в суматохе дня ее никто не заметил. Девочка просто пропала…
Gentlewoman
Экранизация известной трагедии Уильяма Шекспира «Макбет».
Gladys Thomas
Присяжные почти единодушно признают подсудимого виновным в убийстве. Не согласна только мисс Марпл. Чтобы доказать его невиновность, она сама берется за расследование. Фильм снят по повести Агаты Кристи "Смерть миссис МакГинти".
Mr. Figg, the barber, is fond of telling customers about his family, but he hasn’t really got one – he’s a bachelor quite alone in the world. But that may change.
Lady Johnson
A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.
Mrs Gordon
John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for a blood transfusion that would have saved her life. Doctor Brown is determined to seek justice for what he sees as the needless death of a young girl.
Mrs. Grose
Англия Викторианской эпохи. Богатый дворянин нанимает для своих племянников, осиротевших ещё в младенчестве, гувернантку мисс Гидденс — скромную молодую женщину из семьи священника. Уже в первые дни воспитательница начинает видеть призраки бывшего камердинера усадьбы мистера Квинта и своей предшественницы, гувернантки мисс Джессил.
Kitty Launder
After suffering a near fatal accident in his last race over the hill, top British race car driver Greg Rafferty, is about to call it quits when he gets a telegram from racing car tire manufacture Joseph Bartell. He wants Greg to test out his latest invention, a heat resistant car tire, in actual racing competition.
Rose Brock
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.
Mrs. Phillips
Джилли - девочка-сорванец, подглядывая за ссорящейся парочкой, становится свидетельницей случайного рокового выстрела: польский моряк по фамилии Корчинский возвратившийся из плавания в Кардифф, убивает свою подругу в приступе ревности. Джилли подбирает и прячет брошенный пистолет, проникается симпатией к неуравновешенному парню - убийце и хочет ему помочь. Ей удаётся ловко и изобретательно заморочить голову полицейским. Несмотря на прессинг, она не выдаёт убийцу, скрывает правду и изо всех сил защищает моряка...
Lily Grimshaw
During the Cold War, a British family struggles to overcome cultural differences as they welcome two Russian social workers into their home for a visit.
Doris Banks
Анна Кальман — известная актриса, которая оставила надежду найти мужчину своей мечты. Но однажды она встречает очаровательного и умного Филипа Адамса и понимает, что, возможно, он — именно тот, кого она так долго ждала.
Nurse Evans
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband. Radiant performance by Heather Sears. Based on a book that nearly had Helen Keller's co-workers suing for libel due to perceived parallels between Carlo Landi and the husband of Annie Sullivan
Millie
Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion... and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!
Mrs. Snowden
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.
Mrs. Pritchett
The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
Mrs Jones, the Landlady
A day following workers at an airport
Maggie Gay
Jim Gay loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he finds a dog with a better chance to win. His friends bet on his dog while he bets against.
Miss Gibson
Норман работает мелким клерком в огромном лондонском универмаге. Работа скучная, неинтересная, малооплачиваемая. Но есть один плюс — вокруг много красивых девушек, в одну из которых наш герой и влюбляется. А потом начинаются настоящие приключения. Оказывается, шайка преступников готовится ограбить универмаг…
Vi Vining
A British girl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.
Mrs. Powell
An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a hotbed of spies and secret agents.
Tallow's Sister
Это длинный и правдивый рассказ об океане и двух кораблях. Этот рассказ описывает долгое и яростное сражение. Здесь пойдет речь о двух кораблях потому, что один был потоплен и его пришлось заменить другим. Здесь пойдет речь о двухстах пятидесяти моряках. И наконец, самое главное - это правдивый рассказ. Место действия - океан, Северная Атлантика. Карта поведает вам, как он выглядит, но не откроет, что с ним могут сделать люди и что сам он может сделать с людьми... Сначала о корабле. Первом из двух. О том, который обречен. Это корвет. Новый тип конвойных кораблей. Опытный образец, созданный для того, чтобы хоть как-то встретить отчаянную ситуацию, возникшую на горизонте. Время действия - ноябрь 1939 года. Название корабля - Его Королевского Величества корвет «Компас Роуз». И, наконец, о людях. Некоторые, как и сам этот прекрасный корабль, обречены. Герои этого рассказа — мужчины и их корабли. И единственный злодей среди них — жестокое море.
Servant to Isaac
В 1190 году саксонский рыцарь сэр Уилфред из Айвенго инкогнито возвращается в Англию из Третьего Крестового похода, чтобы собрать деньги для выкупа короля Англии Ричарда Львиное Сердце из австрийского плена. В Англии Айвенго узнает, что брат Ричарда, принц Джон, намерен вероломно узурпировать королевскую власть. Верный Ричарду отважный Айвенго не намерен мириться с ситуацией, и онрешает действовать. Прелестная девушка Ребекка, дочь спасенного бесстрашным рыцарем, богатого еврея, подарит Айвенго фамильные драгоценности, чтобы он смог купить снаряжение иучаствовать в престижном рыцарском турнире в Эшби. Там Айвенго должен выиграть призовые деньги для выкупа Ричарда из неволи. Многострадальная Англия ждет своего короля.
Penny
Этот интригующий рассказ показывает, как женщина по имени Мария Брентано была вовлечена в заговор террористического акта. После того, как был случайно убит невинный свидетель, она помогает полиции найти заговорщиков.
Mrs. Briggs
White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a busy hospital, where research pathologist Neil Marriner (James Donald) conducts experiments in the hopes of curing diseases impervious to penicillin. Marriner is aided in this endeavor by lady surgeon Dr. Sophie Dean (Googie Withers), who happens to be in love with him. After a tragedy occurs for which Marriner holds himself responsible, the film builds steadily to an exciting climax involving a untested -- and potentially dangerous -- serum. The top-rank British supporting cast includes Barry Jones, Moira Lister, Petula Clark, Basil Radford, Dagmar (later Dana) Wynter, Bernard Lee, and, in a minor role, future "Dr. Who" Patrick Troughton.
Mrs. Marshall
A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.
Nan Ritchie
The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.
The Innkeeper
Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he eventually resorts to desperate measures to break free. His random wanderings in the countryside lead him to a new opportunity that just might be what he's been looking for all along.
Frau Busche
Трагическая история любви принцессы Софии Доротеи Ганноверской и шведского дворянина, графа Филиппа Кенигсмарка.
Mrs. Alice Trelawne
A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.
Angustina
An orphan wrecks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.
Nurse Woods
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
Barmaid
In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.
Shirley
The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor, they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early.
Housewife
The British Government's ten year plan for providing prefabricated homes.
Peach St. Clair
Gert and Daisy attempt to retrieve an old dress containing £2,000. They have to impersonate two thespians, and bring all sorts of trouble to a stage-play.
Nurse (uncredited)
A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
Gwen Price
Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It stars Patricia Roc, Eric Portman, Megs Jenkins, and Anne Crawford, was written by Sidney Gilliat, and directed by Gilliat and Frank Launder. It was filmed at Gainsborough Studios. When Celia Crowson (Roc) is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life, and begins a relationship with a young airman.
Barmaid
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
